I first heard about the book healing back pain around 3 years ago and I specifically remember downloading it onto my kindle and never reading it.
I feel like a have been dealing with some lower back pain since my teens but it has always come as a dull ache either side periodically and has not kept me away from the sports that I love for long-> Golf, Tennis and going to the gym.
I remember about 3,5 years ago I was in the gym doing romanian deadlifts and something just zapped in my low back, this had me super worried and I lay down on the floor and felt like I could not move for a while until I limped back home with a cool pack on my back. Ever since then I have never fully “recovered” from the low back pain but have had period of flares maybe 1-2 times per year but more in the past year especially since I lost my stepdad to suicide 2 years ago and that’s also when I started to have tension headaches and upper back and shoulder pain.
About a week ago I watched a podcast episode that reminded me of this book and the concept of TMS and I started listening to the audiobook and I could not stop until I had finished the book in less than 2 days, I felt like I was reading my biography. I felt like the pain spots, the personality type fit perfectly and especially I started to connect the dots between stressful life changed such as changing jobs, moving countries and losing a loved one to the exaggeration of my pain.
I am however still nott 100% convinced and I am working on getting there as I have been seeing a rheumotologist and taking adalimumap/humira for the past 7-8 months and felt like it was only barely helping but after pausing it for 1-2 months I definately felt like I had taken a step back in my recovery as I had been feeling at least a bit better. So now the doctor has me trying a new biologic and I am not totally convinced but I believe maybe it does’nt matter and I can still go all in on the TMS methotology.
those are my thoughts as of now
I feel like a have been dealing with some lower back pain since my teens but it has always come as a dull ache either side periodically and has not kept me away from the sports that I love for long-> Golf, Tennis and going to the gym.
I remember about 3,5 years ago I was in the gym doing romanian deadlifts and something just zapped in my low back, this had me super worried and I lay down on the floor and felt like I could not move for a while until I limped back home with a cool pack on my back. Ever since then I have never fully “recovered” from the low back pain but have had period of flares maybe 1-2 times per year but more in the past year especially since I lost my stepdad to suicide 2 years ago and that’s also when I started to have tension headaches and upper back and shoulder pain.
About a week ago I watched a podcast episode that reminded me of this book and the concept of TMS and I started listening to the audiobook and I could not stop until I had finished the book in less than 2 days, I felt like I was reading my biography. I felt like the pain spots, the personality type fit perfectly and especially I started to connect the dots between stressful life changed such as changing jobs, moving countries and losing a loved one to the exaggeration of my pain.
I am however still nott 100% convinced and I am working on getting there as I have been seeing a rheumotologist and taking adalimumap/humira for the past 7-8 months and felt like it was only barely helping but after pausing it for 1-2 months I definately felt like I had taken a step back in my recovery as I had been feeling at least a bit better. So now the doctor has me trying a new biologic and I am not totally convinced but I believe maybe it does’nt matter and I can still go all in on the TMS methotology.
those are my thoughts as of now
